Wilson Kipsang and Meseret Defar to run Tokyo Marathon

Kipsang defends his title, while Defar makes her marathon debut in February

Wilson Kipsang and Meseret Defar are among the athletes announced for the Tokyo Marathon on February 25.

Kenya’s former world record-holder Kipsang will return to defend the title he won in an Asian all-comers’ record of 2:03:58 last year, while Ethiopia’s two-time Olympic and world 5000m gold medallist Defar will make her marathon debut.

Kipsang’s fellow Kenyan Dickson Chumba, who won in Tokyo in 2014, also returns to race in Japan, and they will be joined in the elite men’s field by Ethiopia’s Dubai Marathon winners Tesfaye Abera and Tsegaye Mekonnen, plus Olympic silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa.

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